Verdict Capital

Verdict Capital is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in January 2026 by a former General Catalyst managing director and the founder of Heroic Ventures. It invests in companies in San Francisco, New York City, and Israel. Verdict is a First Money VC. It aims to be a company’s first check, before or instead of friends, family and angels, and is happy to be the only investor in the very first financing, with key follow-on investments after. Its thesis centers on being the earliest institutional investor in breakthrough technology, with AI cutting across developer tools, infrastructure and digital health. Investments include Hilt, Ryniant and ForgeGUI, and its partners’ track records include Cursor, Hebbia, Mercor and Discord. Verdict relentlessly seeks impossibly extraordinary, high-growth founders, with a special love for pre-category companies whose category has no name yet.